Listening Space - For Leaders
Give yourself the gift of time to listen so you can act with purpose
There is a famous saying, "I don't have time to rush." By going fast you overlook important information, and laying traps for yourself that you later will fall into. In times when we seldom slow down, we could gain so much if we gave ourselves the gift of time and space to listen to our our thoughts, to hear our words reflected back at us, and to spend some precious time so that we can make more focussed action.
Listening Spaces is a product created to give you the space to think, to reflect, to connect so that your action can be better focused. It carves out a space for you to develop the habit of listening to your own thoughts and reflecting on your actions. They allows you to:
Slow down for a moment to look at your situation from different perspectives
Review the sorts of action you want to take figuring out what different options can give you
Learn to listen to your inner voice and inner intuition, learn to pay attention to important signs from the environment that you otherwise are too busy to notice
Review your actions and set out a good vision of your development to this time
Learn how to carve out space for reflection in otherwise very busy times
In short, by carving out dedicated time to take a breath and reflect you develop your capacity for developing overview and focused action.
How Listening Spaces Work
We meet for an hour, at a set interval (weekly, bi-weekly, monthly) at a time of day that remains stable, either in the early morning or at the end of the business day. During that hour you will be guided into a dialogue where you can reflect on what is emerging for you in the moment. At the end of each session we have an opportunity to determine any actions you may want to take. At the start of each session we review the past before moving into the current session.
Listening Spaces are valuable when:
Your work requires you to manage complexity
You are a leader in an organization and would like to bounce your thoughts off of a person who is neutral
You need to make important decisions in a setting where you must also act fast